Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back at Donald Trump's rallying cry against them, with the New York Democrat charging the president with putting 'millions of Americans in danger.'
'I think the president put millions of Americans in danger last night. His rhetoric is endangering lots of people,' Ocasio-Cortez told reporters in the Capitol on Thursday.
'This is just not just about threats to individual Members of Congress, but it is about creating a volatile environment in this country through violent rhetoric that puts anyone like Ilhan, anyone who believes in the rights of all people, in danger. And I think that he has a responsibility for that environment.'
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Trump of putting 'millions of Americans' in danger with his words
Representative Ihan Omar pushed back at President Donald Trump's rallying cry against her
She also said she was worried about her personal safety.
'Of course. I think part of the point is to target us,' Ocasio-Cortez said. 'It's natural to be concerned about our security.'
And Omar said she was afraid for fellow minorities - not herself.
'I am not [scared for my safety]. What I'm scared for is the safety for people who share my identity,' Omar told reporters.
'This is not about me. This is about fighting for what this country should be and what it deserves to be.'
Earlier in the day, Omar told Trump she was here to stay and 'you're just gonna have to deal.'
'I am where I belong, at the people's house and you're just gonna have to deal!,' Omar tweeted along with a photo of herself presiding over the House of Representatives.
Several Democrats called for increased security for Omar and other members of the 'squad' - Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib - plus any one else targeted by Trump, The Hill newspaper reported.
'This is an important time in this country. These are dangerous times. Every member of this House needs additional security,' Representative Al Green told the newspaper.
'Leadership has adequate security. Members do not have adequate security. I want to thwart the efforts of those who might want to harm a member of this House,' he said.
President Trump on Thursday disavowed the 'Send her back!' that stood out as a watershed moment in Wednesday night's campaign rally as his supporters shouted it during his tirade against Omar.
'I was not happy with it. I disagree with it,' he said.
'I felt a little bit badly about it,' he conceded, but added: 'I didn't say that. They did.'
Asked why he didn't stop his supporters from chanting the unmistakable message, he replied: 'I think I did. I started speaking very quickly.'
President Trump disavowed the 'send her back' chant on Thursday
Trump came under fire from Democrats and Republicans alike over the chant his supporters shouted at Wednesday night's campaign rally.
The Democrats he targeted took to social media to show the support they were receiving in the wake of his words.
Ocasio-Cortez offered words of encouragement via Twitter.
'To all those scared for our future: we can get through this better than we started. We have the power to triumph over hatred, division, and bigotry. But decency cannot be taken for granted. It is something we must create, advance, and actively work to build each and every day,' she wrote.
Omar retweeted several messages of support as the #IStandWithIlhan hashtag trended on Twitter in the hours after Trump attacked her at his rally, resulting in the crowd shouting 'send her back, send her back' - a reference to Trump's call for the lawmakers who make up the 'squad' to go 'back where they came from.'
And she offered a verse from the poet Maya Angelou as part of her response: 'You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. -Maya Angelou'
Additionally, the first-term congresswoman offered a verse from Toni Morrison and then touted her work in Congress.
''The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work.' -Toni Morrison I am not going to let them distract. Today I am going to do the work the people of Minnesota sent me to do and vote to #RaiseTheWage to $15 an hour,' Omar tweeted from her official account.
'And this afternoon, I am going to return to my district and talk to my constituents about how I am working to guarantee quality health care for them with @RepJayapal,' she added.
The Democratic Congresswoman also told Time magazine she's a target because she represents many minorities in her person.
'The right wing, Trump, the Republicans, white supremacists [launch] attacks on immigrants, refugees, black people, women, Muslims,' she said and noted with her: . 'They have all of that in one box.'
And her communications director, Jeremy Slevin, took to Twitter to blast those who cheered Trump on.
'If you have been smearing Ilhan as an anti-Semite, claiming she loves al Qaeda, claiming she hates America, or printing conspiracy theories about her personal life, you're part of the problem. Trump may have led a fascist chant, but you created the conditions that allowed for it,' he wrote.
The president used his campaign rally Wednesday night as a bully pulpit to hammer his political rivals on a litany of charges.
He claimed 'Omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semitic' attacks, citing her past controversial statements that suggested some political support for Israel was motivated by money.
Trump went after all the members of the 'squad' but hit Omar particularly hard, especially on her Somalian heritage.
'She smeared U.S. Service members involved in Black Hawk Down,' he said during his rally, referring to the failed 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military.
'In other words, she slandered the brave Americans were trying to keep peace in Somalia. Omar minimized the September 11th attacks on our homeland saying some people did something,' he added.
All four women on the 'squad' are racial minorities and three of them were born in the United States. Omar was born in Mogadishu but she and her family left the country in 1990 to escape the war there. She became a U.S. citizen at the age of 17 and was one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
And Trump has made it clear he is relishing the political fight ahead as he battles for his re-election.
President Trump has made it clear he is relishing the political fight ahead
Trump went after all the members of the 'squad' - Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - but targeted Omar especially hard
He smiled broadly at the crowd's reaction to the political red meat he threw at them during his first campaign rally since he formally launched his re-election bid, waving a fist in the air at times, and clapping them along.
'I'm enjoying it because I have to get the word out to the American people. And you have to enjoy what you do. I enjoy what I do. It's not a question of relishing. They're wrong, they're absolutely wrong,' he told reporters at the White House before he left for his campaign rally. 'That's not where our country wants to be.'
He used a similar strategy in his 2016 campaign - throwing red meat at the Republican base to rally them to turn out.
Now his 'lock her up' chant against Hillary Clinton has become the 'send her back' chant directed at four women he's pushing as the face of the Democratic Party.
He also has online supporters of his own. #IStandWithPresTrump also trended on Twitter.
Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates offered the members of the 'squad' their support.
'#IStandWithIlhan and am proud to work with her in Congress. Trump is stoking the most despicable and disturbing currents in our society. And that very hatred and racism fuels him. We must fight together to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country,' Bernie Sanders tweeted.
Biden praised the contribution of immigrants to the country.
'These members of Congress — children of immigrants, just like so many of us — are an example of exactly what makes America great,' Joe Biden wrote on Twitter.
'So, Mr. President, I am here to tell you this. This is OUR country: The United States of America. You'll never understand what makes us strong. And that's why the American people are going to vote you out of office next year,' he added.
The crowd at Trump's rally yelled 'send her back' when Trump talked about Rep. Omar
Kamala Harris also slammed the president: 'It's vile. It's cowardly. It's xenophobic. It's racist. It defiles the office of the President. And I won't share it here. It's time to get Trump out of office and unite the country.'
Elizabeth Warren not only criticized Trump she called on any Republican who supported him to be voted out of office.
'This president is desperate. Calling out his racism, xenophobia, and misogyny is imperative. But he's trying to divide us and distract from his own crimes, and from his deeply unpopular agenda of letting the wealthy and well-connected rip off the country. We must do more,' she tweeted.
'We must call out those who remain silent. We must initiate impeachment proceedings to hold him accountable. And we must build an unstoppable grassroots movement that resoundingly defeats not just Trump, but complicit Republicans everywhere.'
And a few Republicans expressed their discomfort with the crowd's chant of 'send her back.'
'Though it was brief, I struggled with the 'send her back' chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing that's painful to our friends in the minority communities,' tweeted Rep. Mark Walker, a Republican lawmaker and pastor from North Carolina.
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger called for a toned down rhetoric.
'I deeply disagree with the extreme left & have been disgusted by their tone. I woke up today equally disgusted - chants like 'send her back' are ugly, wrong, & would send chills down the spines of our Founding Fathers. This ugliness must end, or we risk our great union,' he wrote on Twitter.
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